242nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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242nd Infantry Division |
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 Troop registration |
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| active | July 9, 1943 to October 7, 1944 |
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.svg){kind=small} German Empire
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry division |
| structure | structure |
| Installation site | Great Born |
| Second World War | Western front |
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| list of | Commanders |
The 242nd Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht was a German Infantry Division in World War II .
history
The division was set up on July 9, 1943 at the Groß Born military training area in Pomerania as a native division in Wehrkreis II from parts of the former 298th Infantry Division . Relocation to Belgium followed for training purposes and as an occupation force . The technical equipment consisted mostly of looted weapons from the French and Italians, including some weapons from the First World War , such as. B. Maxim machine guns .
On October 1943, the division of the 19th Army was subordinate to the French Toulon . In July 1944, the large formation reached a troop strength of 12,000 men and was in position with the 148th Reserve Division from the same army corps and the 244th Infantry Division . After the Allied landing in southern France (as part of Operation Dragoon ) in August 1944, the division was broken up and disbanded on October 7, 1944. The staff formed the new 189th Infantry Division .
structure
The 242nd Inf.-Div. consisted of:
- Grenadier Regiment 917 (from April 1944 with the Armenian Eastern Battalion II./9)
- Grenadier Regiment 918 (from April 1944 with the Armenian Eastern Battalion I./198)
- Grenadier Regiment 919 (from October 1943 to the 709th Infantry Division )
- Grenadier Regiment 765 (in November 1943 from the 715th Infantry Division , from April 1944 with the Azerbaijani Eastern Battalion 807)
- Artillery Regiment 242 (later addition to the departments with Italian captured weapons)
- Division units 242
Commanders
- Major General / Lieutenant General Johannes Baeßler (1892–1944)
Furnishing
The 242nd Inf.-Div. was equipped with the following weapons from non-German production:
- Machine gun Schwarzlose with caliber 6.5 mm, 8 mm
- 13.2 mm / 76 Hotchkiss M1929
- 2.5 cm PaK 113 (f)
- 4.7 cm PaK 181 (f)
- 4.7 cm PaK 36 (t)
- Yugoslav Skoda M28 10 cm field howitzer
- Italian Skoda 100/17 field howitzer
- Czech Skoda M14 / 19 10 cm field howitzer
literature
- Samuel W. Mitcham (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume One: 1st - 290th Infantry Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. Pp. 285 + 286, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 .
- Steven J. Zaloga : Operation Dragoon 1944 . Bloomsbury Publishing , 2013.
Web links
- 200th through 370th German Infantry, Security, and Panzer Grenadier Divisions. Organizations and Histories 1939–1945 ( Memento from February 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 461 kB), Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.
- 242nd Infantry Division on EHRI portal from the Federal Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Ludewig: Ruckzüge: The German Retreat from France, 1944 , page 58 [1]
- ^ A b Steven J. Zaloga: Operation Dragoon 1944: France's other D-Day . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4728-0021-3 ( google.de [accessed January 8, 2019]).
- ↑ Steven J. Zaloga: The Atlantic Wall (3): The Sudwall . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4728-1148-6 ( google.de [accessed January 8, 2019]).